Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6874601 | Brake pad assembly A brake pad assembly includes a shank with a brake pad connected to a first end thereof and the shank extends through a support frame, a first positioning member, a brake arm, a second positioning member, a holding member and is threadedly connected to a nut. The fi... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6125973 | Brake pad holder A brake pad holder designed for adjustably mounting a bicycle brake pad to a brake caliper arm. The brake pad holder is designed to maintain the mounting arm thereof in an orthogonal orientation with respect to the brake caliper arm, while the brake pad h... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6045474 | Drive belt, element therefor and construction in which this is used A drive belt for a continuously variable transmission having belt discs having an at least partially conical contact surface for enclosing a drive belt between pairs of said discs, which drive belt to this end comprises one or more transverse elements pro... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5119909 | Brake shoe construction having ears interfingered with the pad A brake shoe and friction pad that permits removal and replacement of the pad without removing the brake drum or the shoe from its position within the drum by employing spaced upstanding lugs on one end of the shoe and spaced openings on the other edge. T... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4867285 | Brake shoe mounting assembly A brake shoe mounting assembly is provided for a brake mechanism mounted within an axle housing located on the inboard side of a wheel mechanism and having an arcuate brake drum assembly mounted therein. The mounting assembly includes an arcuate brake sho... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4326614 | Disc caliper clutch with easy access and burnout proof rotor A disc caliper clutch, including a rotor slidable along a spline of a shaft so as to frictionally engage with two plates between which the rotor is sandwiched; each of the plates being fitted with friction pads on its side and against which the rotor abut... | 04/27/1982 |
| 3991860 | Means enabling replacement of worn disc brake shoes without disassembly This invention relates to a disc brake apparatus wherein a plurality of brake shoes, that transmit braking force to a plurality of rotating discs, when worn to their minimum allowable thickness, may be replaced with new brake shoes, without disassembly of... | 11/16/1976 |
